On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Richard Freeman
<r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:09:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>> My backend is headless so it's not easy to determine if it's working
>> until I update at least 1 frontend.
>> A few ideas/tips:
>> 1. BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN NOT TO CONNECT USING A 0.21 CLIENT ONCE YOU'VE
> STARTED!!!!!!!!! Disable all of them once you get started or you could
> have one messy database (assuming you have the locale issues). There
> are ways to get around this, but they require care.
>> 2. You can just run mythtv-setup from any updated system to update the
> database. Be sure to examine the console output - the GUI just seems to
> do nothing for a while when it applies update after update.
>> 3. If you want to do your headless server first, just export
> DISPLAY=hostname:display to redirect the windows of mythtv-setup to
> another system. I'm pretty sure that mythtv on gentoo requires libX11/
> etc even if it is built backend-only, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
> Just run xhost +backendserverhostname on another PC running X11 to see
> the console.
>> Just a few ideas... At this point quite a few people have done the
> upgrade on Gentoo, but the more complex the setup you have, the less you
> can probably afford to be on the cutting edge.
>> The biggest issue I had personally was that the script mythtv uses for
> the backups died silently partway, and I didn't realize this at first.
> So, when I restored my database I was missing about 40 tables (just
> about everything starting with "R" and on alphabetically). Fortunately
> I had made a manual backup of my own and was able to use this instead. I'd
> recommend just doing a plain old mysqldump on the database before
> starting just in case.
>> Rich
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users at mythtv.org>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users>